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Learning my way around the terrain system

by Kenneth Eves · in Torque 3D Beginner · 09/28/2012 (2:49 pm) · 4 replies

Working on terrain system mods. Not there yet, but getting there. (shown is at max settings)

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The mod uses the detail channel as a tiling diffuse with detail in a normal map. Having a real problem with mipmapping. It looks pretty bad without anisotropic.

More recently:

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Found a way to tighten up terrain textures:

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Torque 3D Owner Kenneth Eves
XAP GAMES
#1
10/13/2012 (12:12 am)
Currently 10 days working with T3D. Keep in mind, no artist. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

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Dashiva
#2
10/13/2012 (12:53 am)
Are you going to be releasing this mod as a resource? I ask because I'm wondering whether I should even bother with the Torque terrain system at all. I'm thinking of just sculpting / modeling / texture painting my terrain instead.

Torque 3D Owner Kenneth Eves
XAP GAMES
#3
10/13/2012 (1:29 am)
I can roll it into a resource. It's kind of hack-ish, so I hadn't thought about it. I'll drop a virgin 1.2 on my laptop and see if I can pull together all the patches.

It breaks the detail channel for terrains so it can't be used as intended, but with the TGEA like texturing I don't see that as much of a problem.

Torque 3D Owner Kenneth Eves
XAP GAMES
#4
10/18/2012 (3:08 pm)
Resource is live:

http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21953

This is the shader hack to use the detail texture as a second layer blended diffuse.